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Re: Quick Randomizing Algorithm.
Hi,
Yes, that solved my problem. That was fast and sufficiently random!
Nick Hill wrote:
>
> The i810 has a h/w assisted random no. generator. 2.4 supports this, and uses
> the standard /dev/random interface, IIRC.
>
> Nikhil.
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 07:27:01PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> > >From time to time, there is talk of a /dev/random on many kernel mailing
> > lists. I don't have any experience using them. But you may want to
> > try it out.
Just for the archive, it's was as easy as a get_random_bytes(char *
buffer, int nbytes) call within the module.
> > -Arun
>
Thanks and bye,
vinay.
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